Disclosure context

About NoEscape

NoEscape is a financially motivated ransomware group that emerged in mid-2023, rapidly establishing itself as a significant threat with 249 documented victims across multiple sectors. The group's origins and affiliations remain largely undocumented by major security agencies, though their operational patterns suggest they likely operate independently rather than as a Ransomware-as-a-Service model. NoEscape demonstrates sophisticated attack methodologies targeting critical infrastructure and essential services, with their campaigns showing a clear preference for high-value targets in government, healthcare, education, finance, and manufacturing sectors across developed nations, particularly focusing on the United States, United Kingdom, Italy, France, and Australia. The group's rapid victim accumulation rate since their June 2023 emergence indicates an aggressive operational tempo and effective attack capabilities, though specific technical details about their initial access vectors, encryption methods, and extortion tactics have not been extensively documented in public threat intelligence reports from major security agencies. As of current intelligence assessments, NoEscape appears to remain an active threat with no documented law enforcement disruptions or confirmed rebranding activities. The group has been linked to 249 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on June 12, 2023; most recent post December 9, 2023. The operation is currently inactive.

Timeline of this disclosure

November 14, 2023www.landercountynv.org listed by NoEscapeon the group's public leak site

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Government sector, which has 509 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, www.landercountynv.org is reported in United States, a country with 7,392 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

How we know this. Darkfield monitors public ransomware leak sites continuously, archiving every new disclosure and the data later released against the victim. Each entry on this page is sourced from the operator's own publication and cross-checked against complementary OSINT feeds (RansomLook, ransomware.live, RansomWatch). We do not collect or host stolen data — only the metadata, timestamps and screenshots needed to make the public disclosure searchable and accountable. Records here are corrected when the original post is edited, retracted, or merged with another disclosure.

Ransomware victim disclosure

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Lander County, Nevada

listed as www.landercountynv.org · Claimed by NoEscape · listed 3 years ago

30m

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

Listed
Nov 14, 2023
Data leaked

At a glance

Group: NoEscape
Status: Data leaked
Country: United States
Sector: Government
Listed on leak site: Nov 14, 2023

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Lander County is a local government jurisdiction located in central Nevada, with its county seat in Battle Mountain. It provides standard county-level public services including administration, law enforcement, public works, and community services to residents of Lander County, Nevada.

Industry: County Government Administration
Address: 315 S Humboldt St, Battle Mountain, NV 89820, United States

Attack summary

Severity: high — The target is a US county government entity and the status is data_published, confirming exfiltration and release of data. Government records likely contain constituent PII and sensitive administrative data, warranting a high severity rating. Critical would require confirmed large-scale regulated data (e.g., medical or financial records) which cannot be verified from available information.

NoEscape ransomware group claimed an attack on Lander County, Nevada, with the disclosure status recorded as data_published, indicating that data was exfiltrated and subsequently published. No specific details on encrypted systems or data volume were captured in the leak post.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Government records
Employee data
Resident/constituent PII
Internal administrative documents

Sources

Victim sitelandercountynv.org

Source

Indexed 3 years ago

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